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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The following is an edited version of an article by
Dr. J. R. Crewe, of the Mayo Foundation, forerunner of the Mayo Clinic
in
Rochester,
MN, published in Certified Milk Magazine, January 1929. We are
grateful to Dr. Ron Schmid ND of
Middlebury,
CT for unearthing this fascinating piece. The "Milk Cure” was the
subject of at least two books by other authors, written subsequently to
Dr. Crewe’s work. The milk used was, in all cases, the only kind of milk
available in those days - raw milk from pasture-fed cows, rich in
butterfat. The treatment is a combination of detoxifying fast and
nutrient-dense feeding. Note that
Crewe quotes William Osler, author of a standard medical textbook of
the day. Thus, this protocol was an orthodox, accepted therapy in the
early 1900s. Today the Mayo Clinic provides surgery and drug treatments,
but nothing as efficacious and elegant as the Milk Cure.

For fifteen years the writer has employed the certified milk treatment
in various diseases and during the past ten he had a small sanitarium
devoted principally to this treatment. The results obtained in various
types of disease have been so uniformly excellent that one’s conception
of disease and its alleviation is necessarily changed. The method itself
is so simple that it does not greatly interest most doctors and the
main stimulus for its use is from the patients themselves.

To cure disease we should seek to improve
elimination, to make better blood and more blood, to build up the body
resistance. The method used tends to accomplish these things. Blood
conditions rapidly improve and the general condition and resistance is
built up and recovery follows.

In several instances, Osler (Principles and
Practices of Medicine, by William Osler, MD eighth edition) speaks of
milk as being nothing more than white blood. Milk resembles blood
closely and is a useful agent for improving and making new and better
blood. Blood is the chief agent of metabolism. Milk is recognized in
medical literature almost exclusively as a useful food and is admitted
to be a complete food.

The therapy is simple. The patients are put at rest
in bed and are given at half hour intervals small quantities of milk,
totalling from five to ten quarts of milk a day. Most patients are
started on three or four quarts of milk a day and this is usually
increased by a pint a day. Diaphoresis (copious perspiration) is
stimulated by hot baths and hot packs and heat in other forms. A daily
enema is given.

The treatment is used in many chronic conditions
but chiefly in tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system,
cardiovascular and renal conditions, hypertension, and in patients who
are underweight, run-down, etc. Striking results are seen in diseases of
the heart and kidneys and high blood pressure. In cases in which there
is marked edema, the results obtained are surprisingly marked. This is
especially striking because so-called dropsy has never been treated with
large quantities of fluid. With all medication withdrawn, one case lost
twenty-six pounds in six days, huge edema disappearing from the abdomen
and legs, with great relief to the patient. No cathartics or diuretics
were given. This property of milk in edema has been noted in both
cardiac and renal cases.

Patients with cardiac disease respond splendidly
without medication. In patients who have been taking digitalis and other
stimulants, the drugs are withdrawn. High blood pressure patients
respond splendidly and the results in most instances are quite lasting.
The treatment has been used successfully in obesity without other
alimentation. One patient reduced from 325 pounds to 284 in two weeks,
on four quarts of milk a day, while her blood pressure was reduced from
220 to 170. Some extremely satisfying results have been obtained in a
few cases of diabetics.

When sick people are limited to a diet containing
an excess of vitamins and all the elements necessary to growth and
maintenance, which are available in milk, they recover rapidly without
the use of drugs and without bringing to bear all the complicated
weapons of modern medicine.

Under the head of Treatment in Chronic Gastritis,
Osler has said, "A rigid milk diet should be tried” (Principles and
Practices of Medicine, by William Osler, M.D., eighth edition). And
quoting from George Cheyne, he wrote, "Milk and sweet sound blood differ
in nothing but color: milk is blood.” Under the heading of treatment
in many diseases, it was true that he had little to say about drugs but
did say a good deal about diet and particularly as in most every
instance he recommended large quantities of milk.

Under chronic Bright’s disease (p 704) he says,
"Milk or buttermilk should constitute for a time, the chief article of
food.” Under treatment of cancer of stomach (p 505), he says many
patients do best on milk alone. Under treatment of rheumatic fever (p
378), he says, "Milk is the most suitable diet.” With Olser as a
background, one need not hesitate to go a bit farther. In fact,
practically all medical men are agreed as to the value of milk as a
food, and as an important part of the diet in the treatment of many
diseases. But as the chief remedy in the treatment of disease, it is
seldom used.

For more than 16 years I have conducted a small
sanitarium where milk is used almost exclusively in the treatment of
various diseases. The results have been so regularly satisfactory that I
have naturally become enthusiastic and interested in this method of
treating disease. We used good
Guernsey milk, equal to 700 calories to the quart.

Interestingly, diseases that have no similarity
respond equally to this treatment. For instance, psoriasis clears up
beautifully. The improvement in tuberculosis or nephritis is equally
interesting but there is no similarity in these diseases. I once heard a
very distinguished medical man discussing a case of psoriasis. He said,
"This was the worst case of psoriasis I have ever seen. This boy was
literally covered from head to foot with scales. We put this boy on a
milk diet and in less than a month he had a skin like a baby’s.” To me,
this means that there was evidently some nutritive substance or vitamin
or glandular secretion lacking that was furnished by the milk.

It is well known that there is no time in the life
of practically any mammal, but especially of the human, when the body is
so beautiful and perfect as during the period when milk is the only
food. It will be admitted that there is no period in life when the body
is so perfect as in infancy, the infant being fed on milk from a healthy
mother.

The Arabs are said (Encyclopaedia Britannica) to be
the finest race, physically, in the world. Their diet consists mostly
of milk and milk products with fruits and vegetables, and some meat. You
are all familiar with the writings of Colonel McCarrison, a medical
officer in the British Army. He tells us that for nine years he was
stationed in
India in a district in the
Himalayan
Mountains. He said that the natives were very fine physically, that
they retained a youthful appearance to advanced age and lived long and
that they were very fertile. During the nine years of his residence
there he saw practically no disease, no cases of malignancy or of
abdominal disease. The diet of these people was simple and consisted
principally of vegetables and fruits and milk and milk products.

Steffanson wrote most interestingly of the Eskimo,
who, when uncontaminated by civilized conditions were hardy and robust.
Their diet of course was almost entirely of meat and fish. He tells us,
however, that the habits of meat-eating people are similar to those of
carnivorous animals. The wolf first attacks the heart and gets the blood
and later eats the glandular organs and viscera, leaving the muscle
meats till the last. The Eskimo does the same thing.

During one expedition Mr. Steffanson and party
started on a nine months’ trip over the Arctic ice with only one day’s
provisions. All previous Arctic explorers had said that civilized men
could not live in the Arctic regions without bringing in their supplies.
Mr. Steffanson and his party, during the nine months, were almost never
without an abundance of food, and much of it was eaten frozen and raw. I
wish to show from Steffanson’s experience, first, that it is possible
for people to be robust and maintain good health on various types of
food of limited variety. That the condition common to all types of diet
is, that much of the food is eaten raw. I wish to say here that our very
excellent results obtained in the treatment of disease were had with
uncooked food and raw milk.

The experience of seeing many cases of illness
improve rapidly on a diet of raw milk has suggested more and more the
feeling that much of modern disease is due to an increasing departure
from simple methods of preparing plain foods. The treatment of various
diseases over a period of 18 years with a practically exclusive milk
diet has convinced me personally that the most important single factor
in the cause of disease and in the resistance to disease is food. I have
seen so many instances of the rapid and marked response to this form of
treatment that nothing could make me believe this is not so.

We have often seen most satisfactory results in the
treatment of anemia, including pernicious anemia, on a milk diet. I
have repeatedly seen a marked reduction in the size of simple and toxic
thyroid, with improvement in the symptoms of the toxic one. In prostatic
diseases and associated conditions, this treatment will achieve rapid
and marked improvement in the infection and in the reduction of the
gland and lessening of obstruction. A professor of surgery in one of our
state universities once said to me, "Since I have used your method in
preparing prostate cases, I have had most excellent results and no
mortality.” I replied that if he had continued the treatment a little
longer, he would not need to operate. All infections of the urinary
tract are greatly improved by this treatment.

An old friend of mine, a woodworker, aged 74, had a
marked heart lesion and complete prostatic obstruction, so that it was
necessary to use a permanent catheter. He had been taking digitalis but
this was discontinued, and he received no medication of any kind. The
prostate was very large and the residual urine very foul. His recovery
has been rapid, and he has been able to work since that time and is now
in very good health at 77 years of age. Another local man was treated
six years ago for a severe chronic winter cough and prostatic disease,
which necessitated his getting up many times at night. He volunteered
the information a few days ago that he had no more trouble with any
illness since that time.

Indeed we had a number of patients who took the
treatment for "beauty treatment.” The tissues become firmer and the
general appearance is markedly improved.

One patient with very advanced cardiac and
nephritic disease lost over thirty pounds of edema in six weeks. One
would expect the large quantities of fluid would increase the edema but
the above experience has been repeated many times in lesser degrees.

Hypertension responds with equal gratification. The
blood pressure improves rapidly. I have never seen such rapid and
lasting results by any other method. One of the patients lived almost
exclusively on milk for more than three years.

About ten years ago a very sick man came to the
Sanitarium suffering from a severe cystitis and nephritis. He was a
diabetic. As milk contains about five percent milk sugar, it was feared
that he could not manage this amount of sugar. But he did manage it, and
improved in every way and in eight weeks was sugar free. My experience
with milk diet in diabetes has been limited, but very interesting. These
few patients, only seven or eight, have been much pleased with the
results. Insulin was used for a time in some of the cases. They all
became sugar free, or nearly so, after from four to ten weeks. From the
fact that these patients were able to use a much more liberal diet than
diabetics usually can take (after the treatment), it would seem to
indicate that at least a partial regeneration of the pancreas is not
impossible.

Recently I received a letter from a soldier who was
confined in a government hospital in
Arizona [for tuberculosis]. He said a former patient of mine had
induced him to try this method. He said that he had done so well that a
number of the men were also attempting it and he had written for more
definite instructions. He also said that the patients had to buy their
own milk and received no encouragement from the hospital authorities.

There is a large class of patients who are ill but
in whom no definite organic lesion can be found. These patients are
often underweight. They may consume a fairly large amount of food but
they do not gain in weight or strength. These patients do respond
admirably to our system of large quantities of milk. The chief fault of
the treatment is that it is too simple. Patients attempt to do it at
home, but there are many pitfalls, and it does not appeal to the modern
medical man.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Many people promise themselves to lose weight when the New Year
comes, especially after they managed to gain some during the Holiday
Season.

The beginning of a New Year seems to be a perfect time to make some
important changes in one's life and weight loss is an issue that is
becoming acute for more and more people.

As we age, our metabolism slows dawn considerably and it becomes more
difficult to lose weight now than it was when we were younger. In order
to lose weight we must understand these physiological changes and
adjust our nutrition accordingly. We may have to supplement with
digestive enzymes to help our system digest the foods we eat. We may
have to add herbs and spices that will enhance our digestion and
increase metabolism. And we definitely need to exercise more and eat
less than we used to if we want to keep the weight off and stay fit.

Going on a strict diet may be necessary in some cases. Diet pills and
drinks are perfect to jump start an effective loss of excess weight,
but I do not advocate any long term food deprivation or meal
replacements. Initially, you may be able to loose some weight with diet
pills and drinks, but more often than not, you will gain it back as soon
as you revert to your regular diet.

In order to achieve any durable improvement you need to change your
lifestyle and the way you perceive yourself. Any drastic change is
ineffective because sooner or later you will sabotage it. The changes
you implement must be gradual and should not add stress to your life.

Remember that you eat to nourish yourself and choose your food
accordingly. Your food must deliver energy, proteins, vitamins,
minerals, essential fatty acids, enzymes, and other vital nutrients that
will help your body function properly and stay healthy. Add fruit and
vegetable to your diet and eat them raw as often as you can. Eat smaller
portions and choose fish and poultry over red meat, olive oil over
butter, stevia over sugar...

Additionally you will need to supplement with high quality vitamin
and mineral supplement, L-Glutamine and Omega-3 essential fatty acids.

Healthy, balanced nutrition and sufficient physical activity are
essential if you want to reduce your weight and improve the overall
health. But if you feel that, despite all these lifestyle changes, you
are not loosing any weight, you may suffer from an under-active thyroid
or from intestinal parasites, including candida. You may also have
undetected intolerance to some foods. Very often hidden allergies are
responsible for the unexplained weight gain. Weight loss is almost
impossible unless the allergens are removed from the daily diet.

It is important to find out the reason for weight gain and a
difficulty in losing it. Unless you do, you will struggle from one diet
to another without much success but rather a serious damage to your
health.

You may have to consult your health care provider before you set out on an exercise or a diet plan.

Two very important aspects of a successful weight loss program are
your determination and motivation to lose weight. If you failed before,
you may want to find a health coach and a support group. You could join
an exercise group or a healthy-cooking class to get all the support you
need. Sharing your success and experience with like-minded people will
help you stay on track well beyond January 8th.

I am thrilled that you found your way here and hope you will find my articles helpful and interesting.

Healthy nutrition, pure water, exercise, proper relaxation, and a positive outlook on life, are the crucial elements that act in synergy to sustain our mental and physical health. To a great degree we are responsible for our own condition.

Our bodies have the most remarkable ability to heal themselves. Sometimes even small changes in lifestyle can reverse conditions that seem to be hopeless. We just have to stop doing what harms us.

It is possible to live a long, healthy and productive life. It is possible to slow down the aging process and take years off your face.

Nutritional supplements and state of the art skin care can help you feel and look younger longer. Positive attitude will help you enjoy your journey even more.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger, more skilled, more self-confident, and more successful. - Mark Victor Hansen

The nutritional ignorance in our culture is astounding, and as long as such ignorance remains so widespread, we will never achieve a health care system that's both effective and affordable. As long as our doctors remain nutritionally illiterate, we will never have a health care system that values educating patients about what they put in their mouths. - Mike Adams

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